A doucai bowl
Chenghua six-character mark, Kangxi/Yongzheng
Painted and enamelled around the exterior with a continuous scene of boys at play within a fenced garden, with ornamental rockwork and flowers, below a chevron border at the rim, the interior painted in underglaze blue with a central flame medallion framed by double rings.
11.8cm (4¾in) diam.
Painted and enamelled around the exterior with a continuous scene of boys at play within a fenced garden, with ornamental rockwork and flowers, below a chevron border at the rim, the interior painted in underglaze blue with a central flame medallion framed by double rings.
11.8cm (4¾in) diam.
Sold for
£3,000
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Compare a very similar doucai bowl, also with a Chenghua mark, in the collection of S.C.Coles, illustrated by S.Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1977, pl.LXXII.
Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art
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